Dan Fogelberg Quotes

Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I don't like to tell lies.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.